Turnitin and Feedback Studio

To grade and view assignments in the iLearn environment you will be using Turnitin and Feedback Studio. Turnitin is the online platform where students go to submit their assignments online, it also checks submissions for elements of plagiarism.

Feedback Studio is a product within Turnitin which you will use to grade student assignments.There are many applications available to you within both products and it is important that you are familiar with all of them.

Learn more by searching through the guides provided below.

Turnitin: Creating and managing assignments using Turnitin

Turnitin is an online text-matching software that compares electronically submitted papers to databases of academic publications as well as other papers that have been submitted into the system. Turnitin assignments can be set up through iLearn using Moodle Direct Integration. This enables students to login to iLearn to submit assignments directly into Turnitin. You will then be able to access submissions, originality reports and provide feedback all within iLearn.

To create a Turnitin assignment:

Click Turn editing on.

Go to the week/topic you wish to add the Turnitin assignment to.

Click Add an activity or resource and select Turnitin Assignment.

Click Add.

Enter a Turnitin Assignment Name.

Enter a Summary giving details of the assignment. Click on to display full editing tools.

Assign Submission Type from the available options. The default is File Upload. Text submission will require students to copy and paste their paper into a text box and Any Submission Type allows students to choose their submission type.

Assign Number of Parts. (Multiple parts is not recommended if grading the assignment.)

Assign a Maximum File Size.

Assign Allow submission of any file type. Select No to restrict submissions to file types that can be checked for originality (Word or PDF). Select Yes to allow any type of file to be submitted to be available to download and marked through Feedback Studio where possible.

Assign Display Originality Reports to Students, which controls whether students are allowed to view originality reports created for their assignment. Select Yes if you would like students to be able to see their originality report. The default is No.

Assign Grade Display as a percentage or a fraction ie 45/60

For Auto Refresh Grades / Scores, leave this as the default of Yes to automatically refresh grades and originality scores.

Click to expand the Grade heading. Assign a value for Maximum points. This will create a column in the iLearn Gradebook with this value.

The next sections gets its heading from the Turnitin assignment name you assigned and part number. Enter a Name or leave it as the default of Part 1.

Edit the dates for this assignment. The due date will default to a week after the assignment was created. Assign Start Date and End Date. Assign Post Date (the date grades will be released to students) and Max Marks if you are using Feedback Studio.

Click to expand the Originality Report Options heading.

Select whether to Allow Late Submissions after the Due Date. Select Yes to allow students to submit after the due date. Any late submissions are marked as being late.

Assign Report Generation Speed from the available options:Generate reports immediately (resubmissions are not allowed) - Students cannot resubmit papers and must be deleted by the instructor to enable resubmission. Originality reports will be generated immediately.Generate reports immediately (resubmissions are allowed until due date) - Students may resubmit as often as they like until the assignment due date to allow for self-review. Originality reports for the initial submission will be generated immediately and in 24 hours for subsequent submissions. Students will not be able to resubmit an assignment after the due date.Generate reports on due date (resubmissions are allowed until due date) - Originality Reports will not be generated for any submission until the due date and time of the assignment. This means that all submissions will be compared with each other at the end on the due date.

Assign Store Student Papers from the available options.

Select from the available repository sources (Student papers, Internet, Journals, periodicals and publications) to compare submissions against. This allows an instructor to disregard a source type if the comparison is not needed.

Select whether to Exclude Bibliography, Quoted material or Small Matches.

Click to expand the GradeMark Options heading.

If you are using a rubric in this assignment, select a previously created rubric from the drop down list or click on Launch Rubric Manager to create a new rubric.

Refer to the Using Rubrics in Feedback Studio Quick Guide for information on how to create a new rubric

Click on Save and Display.

To edit the assignment settings, click Update this Turnitin assignment.

To submit an assignment for a student:

Locate the student who you are submitting on behalf of.

Click on the upload icon .

Enter a Submission Title.

Click on the paper icon and select the file you would like to submit.

Click Add Submission.

To access submissions and originality reports:

Click on the Submission Inbox tab. This will display a list of students enrolled in the course and a summary of originality scores along with their submissions for download.

The Submission Title column lists the students' assignment file.

Click on the assignment file to open the assignment in the Turnitin document viewer.

The Submitted field notes the date and time of submission. A late submission will display in red text.

The Similarity field notes the overall similarity percentage for each paper. You can also click on the percentage value to view the Originality Report in the Turnitin document viewer.

To add grades and comments using Feedback Studio:

If you use Feedback Studio, any grades and general comments entered into the Feedback Studio document viewer will automatically transfer to iLearn’s Submission Inbox and Gradebook.

Click on the Submission Inbox tab.

Click on the column headings to order submissions (e.g. by student name, similarity, grade).

Enter a name into the Search field to find a particular student.

Click on the Pencil icon of the assignment you wish to grade.

The assignment will open up in the Feedback Studio document viewer.Enter a score in the Assignment mark field.

To start marking using Feedback Studio:

Click on the TurnitinAssignment link within a week/topic or on the Turnitin Assignments link in the Activities block(this will take you to the list of all assignments).

You will see all the students in your unit. Click Show All Entries to access the assignments.

Click on either the submission title, similarity percentage or pencil icon to open the Turnitin document viewer.

Click on the Layers icon tab to access the marking features. You can keep the Similarity report visible while marking by ticking the similarity layer.

Using Feedback Studio, you can provide feedback for each assignment by:

adding QuickMark comments;

writing comments on the assignment page;

highlighting and/or deleting text.

Grading with QuickMark comments

Click on the QuickMark view icon.

Drag and drop appropriate QuickMark comments to the assignment page. Hover your mouse over the comment to see how the comment will appear.

To view other QuickMark sets, click on the dropdown list and select the QuickMark set you would like to view.

To write your own QuickMark comment, click on the assignment page and select the Comment bubble .

Position the Comment bubble on the assignment page where you would like the comment to appear and click on it to open the bubble. Type in your comment and click out of the box to save it.

If you wish to save this comment for future use:

Click on the Convert to QuickMark link.

Give the comment an abbreviated title.

Select the QuickMark set you would like to add the comment to using the dropdown menu.

Click Save.

If you wish to create a new QuickMark set, click on the QuickMark manager icon.

Click on the Plus icon and give your set a title.

Click Save .

Grading with text comments

Click on the assignment page and select the Text bubble icon and start typing.

Left click on the assignment page where you would like to add the comment and start typing.

To highlight or delete text:

To highlight text:

Using your mouse, highlight the desired section and the bubble will appear. Click on the comment icon.

Type in your comment. You can change the colour of the highlighted text by clicking on the coloured square on in the top right.

To delete text:

Using your mouse, highlight the desired section you wish to cross out and click on the Strike icon. Add a Comment bubble to explain why you have deleted the text.

To finish marking:

To add a overall comment for the assignment click on the Feedback Summary icon.

Enter a Text Comment or Voice Comment.

To assign an overall mark, click in the Assignmentmark field and type in your mark.

Student marks and feedback will be available to them from the post date that was entered in the Summary tab in your iLearn unit.

Anonymous Marking and Multiple Markers

In Turnitin you can anonymously mark student papers and to have multiple people mark student papers.

Anonymous Marking

Anonymous marking (or blind marking) allows you to grade student’s work without seeing any identifiable student information. In a situation where you are required to reveal a student’s name, such as instances of suspected plagiarism, an audit trail will be created, accessible by system administrators.

Anonymous marking is set at assignment level. To enable anonymous marking for an assignment, you will find the option during assignment creation. Anonymous marking cannot be enabled after a submission has been made; however, if there have been no submissions to the assignment, you are able to edit this option in the settings.

Revealing a Student’s Name when Anonymous Marking

Once a student has submitted to an assignment, you may reveal their name, providing you have reason to do so. Revealing a student’s name is irreversible and will be audited to ensure that student information is revealed for an acceptable reason. Account administrators will receive notice of your anonymous marking deactivation.

In the submission inbox, you will find that all students names are filled with a link titled Anonymous Marking Enabled.

If for any reason you must reveal a student’s name, click on Anonymous Marking Enabled from the assignment inbox.

You will be asked to provide a reason for unmasking your student’s name. State your reason and click the Reveal button.

Your student’s name will now be visible in the Student column of the Submission Inbox.

Multiple Markers

Multiple Markers introduces the ability to allow multiple people to mark an assignment. Multiple Markers will appear within the Feedback Studio. Multiple Markers will give each marker their own marking layer on an assignment. This marking layer can then be toggled on and off, just like any other laying in Feedback Studio, to provide multiple sources of feedback for a student.

Marker Layers

In clicking on a student’s submission, Feedback Studio will activate your layer by default. Your layer will be retained only if you leave a comment on the paper.

Your Layer

Once you have left feedback within your layer, the feedback will then be made available for other markers to view. You must wait for other markers to also leave feedback in order for their layers to appear within your Feedback Studio. To view all marker layers for a paper, each marker must have accessed the paper and left feedback. This will then cause the marker’s name to appear within the Active Layers side panel.

Your initials will appear alongside any comments you leave, helping your students to differentiate between the multiple markers who have left feedback on their submission.

Multiple Marker Layers

Any other marker layers will appear in the same location as your own. You can turn these layers on and off like any other by checking and unchecking the relevant checkbox.

Enabling other marker layers will make their comments appear alongside your own.

Things to remember:

Multiple marking is not supported on the iPad app.

Markers can currently edit and remove other marker’s feedback.

Using rubrics in Turnitin

You can create rubrics to grade Turnitin assignments via Feedback Studio. Rubrics can be either weighted, points-based, or qualitative for offering standardised feedback on student papers. A rubric makes the marking process very easy and provides clear and consistent feedback for students.

Rubric types

There are three types of rubrics. The default is the standard (weighted) rubric but you can create a custom points-based rubric or a qualitative rubric. Use these icons to select a rubric type.

Standard (weighted) rubric

The standard rubric is the easiest to use. To set up a standard rubric, you need to decide on criteria and the percentage weight, the different levels of achievement (e.g. excellent, good, average, poor), and the relative value of each level (e.g. 5 for excellent, 3 for average).

Custom rubric

The custom rubric allows you to assign a point value for each criterion and distribute those points across a scale of achievement. A total is calculated by adding the highest point values entered for each criterion. A grade is calculated by dividing the sum of the total by the total of possible points.

Qualitative rubric

The qualitative rubric allows you to create standardised feedback without applying numerical values. To set up a qualitative rubric, you need to enter a detailed definition for each criteria and scale mark.

To create a standard rubric:

First you need to create a Turnitin Assignment. See the Creating and managing assignments quick guide.

When creating the assignment, you will attach your rubric under the GradeMark Options heading.

If you have previously created a rubric you can select it from the dropdown list.

To create a new rubric click on Launch Rubric Manager.

Click on the Rubric list icon and select Create new rubric .

Enter a Rubric name. Hit the enter (return) key.

Click on Criterion 1 and enter a name (up to 13 characters long). Hit the enter (return) key.

Click on the grey space below the name you just entered. Enter a description of the criterion in the text box.

The rubric will now appear in the dropdown list. Select the rubric to attach it to the assignment.

Continue with the remaining settings of the assignment and click on Save and display.

Marking with a rubric

The rubric scorecard allows you to easily score the performance of the paper against the set of criterion on a scale.

When in the Feedback Studio view of an assignment, click on the Rubric/Form scorecard icon.

Drag the scale value along the line (per criteria) the paper has met. A description of the scale value is displayed below the scales.

The Rubric score displays the total to be awarded for the assignment.

If using the weighted rubric type, click on the Apply to grade button. Once a grade is applied using the rubric it will appear in the Assignment mark field at the top right corner of the document viewer.

Sharing rubrics in Turnitin

Feedback Studio is a product within Turnitin that facilitates online marking and feedback. Rubrics provide criteria for grading and can act as a grading template. Turnitin allows you to create your own Rubric, save and share with others.

Export (share) a rubric

Click on the link to the Turnitin assignment. Click on Update this Turnitin V2 in the top right corner.

Scroll down and click to expand GradeMark Options.

Click to Launch Rubric Manager.

Click on the Rubric list icon and select the required rubric.

Click on the Arrow icon and select Export...

A prompt will appear, save this file to your desktop. It will be an .rbc file.

Email this file to the people you wish to share it with.

Import a rubric

Click on the link for the Turnitin assignment. Click on Update this Turnitin V2 assignment in the top right corner.

Scroll down and cick to expand GradeMark Options.

Click on Launch Rubric Manager.

Click on the Arrow icon and select Import...

Click Select Files and locate the .rbc file in your computer. Alternatively, you can drag the file into the box to import the file.

You will receive a message advising Import complete.

Click Back to Rubic/ Form Manager then click Close.

The Rubric will now appear in your Rubric list.

Creating a Rubric in Excel

You can create a rubric in an Excel file and then import the file into Turnitin. This is handy if there are wifi connection issues or timeout issues, so the rubric doesn’t get lost while being created. You first need to download an Excel example template so it will be in the correct format to import.

Download a template

First you need to create a Turnitin Assignment. See the Creating and managing assignments quick guide.

Under the GradeMark Options heading click on Launch Rubric Manager.

Click on the Arrow icon and select Import…

Click on Download Example Template and click OK to open with Excel.

The Example Template will appear.

Click on the Criterion 1 cell and place your cursor in the text input line at the top of the page and overtype Criterion 1 title with a name (up to 13 characters long). Move your cursor along the line with the arrow keys and overtype Criterion 1 description and enter a description of the criterion.

Repeat step 6 for all other remaining criteria.

Click on the Scale 1 cell and enter a name. Hit the Enter (Return) key.

In the cell below the name you just entered, enter a description of the scale.

Repeat steps 8 - 9 for all other remaining criteria.

Save the rubric document as a CSV file.

Import a Rubric

Click on the link for the Turnitin assignment. Click on Update this Turnitin V2 assignment in the top right corner.

Scroll down and click to expand GradeMark Options.

Click on Launch Rubric Manager.

Click on the Arrow icon and select Import…

Click Select Files and locate the .rbc Excel file in your computer. Alternatively, you can drag the file into the box to import the file.

You will receive a message advising Import complete.

Click Back to Rubric/Form Manager the click Close.

The Rubric will now appear in your Rubric list.

Continue with the remaining setting of the assignment and click on Save and display.

Sharing Quickmarks in Turnitin

Feedback Studio is a product within Turnitin that facilitates online marking and feedback. Turnitin allows you to create and save your own set of commonly used comments and share them with others.

Create a set of QuickMarks

Click on the QuickMark Manager icon.

Click on the Menuicon and select Create New Set.

Enter a title for the set.

Click Save.

Click on the Menu icon and selct your newly created Set.

To create a new QuickMark, click on the plus icon and enter a title and description.

Click Save.

To copy an existing QuickMark, click on the Menu icon select the name of the Set containing the QuickMark and select the QuickMark you wish to copy.

Click Add to set and select the name of the new Set created.

Export (share) a set of QuickMarks

Click on the QuickMark Manager icon.

Click on the Menu icon and set you you would like to export.

Click on Menu and select Download Set.

A prompt will appear, save this file to your desktop. It will be a .qms file.

Email this file to the people you wish to share it with.

Import a set of QuickMarks

Click on the QuickMark Manager icon.

Click on the Menuicon and select Upload Set.

Drag and drop or browse and locate the .qms file on your computer.

You will see when the import is complete. Click to Open it.

The Set will now appear in your Set list.

Creating a voice comment

Feedback Studio is a product within Turnitin that facilitates online marking and feedback. Markers can leave a voice comment as feedback on students’ assignments, along with written comments, QuickMarks and rubrics.

To leave a voice comment:

Click on the TurnitinAssignment link within a week/topic or on the Turnitin Assignments link in the Activities block(this will take you to the list of all assignments).

You will see all the students in your unit.

Click on the Submission title link. The assignment will open in a Turnitin document viewer.

Click on the Feedback Summary icon.

Click on the Record icon to start recording.

The record button is greyed out in the browser for Firefox but is active in all other browsers.

Click on the Stop button when you have finished recording.

Click on the Play button to listen to your recording.

Click on the Save button if you are happy with the recording.

Click on the Delete button if you wish to start again.

Students will access your voice comment once the Turnitin assignment’s post date is reached. The following screenshot shows the student view of Feedback Studio feedback.

Using groups for marking in Turnitin

In Turnitin you can apply group settings to organise and separate student submissions according to markers. This streamlines the marker’s view of the submission inbox. Depending on the group settings, markers will only see submissions from their tutorial class rather than having to search through all submissions.

To create marking groups in Turnitin

Create a Group for each Tutorial class.

Create a Grouping (e.g. Assignment marking grouping) and assign the groups created to this grouping.

Make sure you put all of the markers into their relevant groups as well.

Refer to the Groups and Grouping Quick Guides for more information on how to set up your Groups and Grouping. In addition to this there are several options for setting up groups depending on the number of students and the type of groups you want.

Set up groups manually if you only have a small group of students

Import groups if you have large student numbers and several groups all listed in a spreadsheet

Get students to enrol themselves in their groups

Create random groups

Create groups automatically for internal and external students if you wish to split up the marking between these two groups

Set up a Turnitin assignment in your unit.

Click on the link to go to your Turnitin assignment.

Click Update this Turnitin V2 to access the settings page.

Click to expand the Common module settings heading.

Assign Group mode.Separate groups – Tutors will only have access to student submissions from their group.Visible groups – Tutors will have access to all student submissions, with the option to select their own group from a dropdown menu. Anyone with the Convenor or Lecturer role will have access to view all student submissions regardless of whether separate or visible groups is selected. You can navigate through the different groups using the drop-down menu.

Click Add group/grouping access restriction.

Click to expand the Restrict access heading.

The Group option will appear. Click on the X to delete this as it is not needed.

Select the Grouping you created in step 2 using the dropdown menu.

Click Save and display.

Top Tips to Save Time and Make the Most of Turnitin and Feedback Studio

When setting up assignments

Follow the Turnitin Quick Guidefor clear step-by-step instructions on how to set up your assignment.

Allow late submissions so students can submit after the due date. Late submissions will be indicated in red. If you do not allow late submissions, students can no longer submit after the due date that will lead to calls and emails from students.

Don’t use settings under the Restrict access section to set your due dates.

Instead, use the Assignment Part 1 section to set the Start, Due, and Post dates.

Set your Post date correctly if you are using Feedback Studio. The Post date is your deadline for marking, as it is the date your feedback will become available to students in Feedback Studio and in the Gradebook. Make sure to allow yourself plenty of time. The Post date can be modified.

Maximum grade is set to the maximum grade available for the assignment.

Create marking groups if you have a large cohort and several markers for the assignment. This way each marker can view their group’s submissions rather than search through all submissions. Follow this Quick Guide to set up groups.

When marking assignments

Search for a particular student’s paper in the submission inbox by selecting ShowALL Entries and then start typing the students name in the Search box.

Look carefully at the originality report to make your own judgement about whether plagiarism has occurred. You can’t simply rely on the similarity percentage. Refer to the this Teche Post on Turnitin – what percentage is the cutoff for plagiarism on interpreting originality reports.

View text matches at the same time as using QuickMark comments by clicking on the Activity Layers icon and selecting both Grading and Similarity. This will have the text matches showing faintly while you are marking.

Use the drop-down menu or arrows in the top right corner within the Feedback Studio viewer to navigate directly between student assignments, rather than going back to the submission inbox in iLearn each time.

Save the final gradeafter you enter it in the top right corner by clicking anywhere on the paper you are marking.